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About CID: At CID, a multidisciplinary team of teachers, pediatric audiologists and speech-language pathologists use listening and spoken language to prepare children who are deaf and hard of hearing to participate and succeed without the need for sign language. Generous private scholarship support enables CID to turn away no child with hearing loss based on a family's inability to pay.
Students typically live in the St. Louis metropolitan area, southern Illinois and rural Missouri. CID students have come from 48 U.S. states and 28 other countries.
CID provides continuing education workshops and curricula for professionals in deaf education, audiology and speech-language pathology. CID also offers guided observations, consultation models and in-service training for public and private schools and school districts who serve children who use cochlear implants and hearing aids. CID helps prepare future teachers of the deaf and audiologists, offering practicum experiences for local university graduate students. CID teachers serve as faculty in the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS). This program is closely affiliated with but financially independent from CID.
EDITOR'S NOTES:
CID was founded in 1914 by St. Louis doctor Max Goldstein, MD, in rooms above his medical offices on Vandeventer Avenue. He envisioned a place where teachers, parents and doctors would work together to help deaf children learn to listen, talk and achieve independence. The science and profession of audiology were developed at CID along with successful methods and practices for teaching children listening, spoken language and literacy skills.
CID has been located at the southern end of the Washington University Medical Center/Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis since 1916. CID is a proud member of the United Way.
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Lemkemeier is president; six join board
February 18, 2013
JANUARY 2013, ST. LOUIS -- At its winter meeting, the board of directors of CID - Central Institute for the Deaf appointed a new president and five new members. Ned Lemkemeier, former vice president and life member of the CID board, took the reins as president. Kathy Beilein, Laura Haffenreffer, Jorge Riopedre, David Schepers and Eugene Toombs IV joined as members. Robin Feder, executive director of CID, announced that each member was voted in by the full board at its winter meeting. In addition, the CID board had previously named Mary Burgesen a member and alumni representative.
| Ned Lemkemeier is senior counsel at Bryan Cave, LLC. Mr. Lemkemeier has a rich history of service to CID, to Washington University and to the St. Louis community. Learn more about him.
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| Kathy Beilein is president of Laura McCarthy Realtors. She is a founding member of the board of Clayton Art Fair and has served on the boards of Wellness Community, Chaminade College Prep, Villa Duchesne and Old Town Clayton. She has been live auction co-chair for two CID Ultimate Picnics. |
| Mary Burgesen, a 1980 graduate of the CID school, represents the alumni on the board. Mrs. Burgesen is president of the CID Alumni Association and a former CIDAA reunion chair. She is a deaf youth camp teacher and leader in deaf ministry at First Baptist Church of Arnold. She serves as treasurer of the Missouri Baptist Conference of the Deaf and has served on the boards of RTR - Round Table Representatives for the Deaf and St. Louis Bell Club. She is also an alumna of Fontbonne and Missouri State Universities.
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| Laura Haffenreffer, a former teacher, is an active community volunteer and a member of the CID Ultimate Picnic committee. She serves on the fundraiser steering committee of North Side Community School, where she assisted with the development of a preschool program. The organizations she has served over the years include: Tower Grove Park, Mary Institute Country Day School, Conway Elementary School, the St. Louis Arts and Education Council, Edgewood Children's Center, Goodwill Industries, St. Louis Science Center and Salem Methodist Preschool.
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| Jorge Riopedre is the executive director of Casa de Salud, a health and wellness organization providing high quality clinical and mental health care to the new immigrant community. Mr. Riopedre is a past executive director and president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis. He also sits on the boards of HisPAC and the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals. He is a member of the UMSL College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Council. He was appointed by former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt to the Hispanic Business, Culture and Trade Commission and by current Governor Jay Nixon to the Missouri Complete Count Commission. The St. Louis Business Journal previously named him a Minority Business Leader and he received a national Business Achievement Award from the Service Corps of Retired Executives.
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 | David Schepers is vice president of strategic initiatives for Ameren Corporation of St. Louis. Mr. Schepers has over 36 years' experience in all phases of electric utility distribution, including engineering, design, construction, planning, metering and operations. He is past chair of the Edison Electric Institute Distribution and Metering Committee, a registered professional engineer in Missouri and Illinois, a senior member of IEEE and the co-founder and past president of the Gateway Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders. He also serves on the boards of Trailnet, St. Louis BWorks and Ranken Technical College. He is a past chair of the Electrical Board of Missouri and Illinois.
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| Eugene Toombs is retired chairman and CEO (1993-2011) and a current director of MiTek, Inc. and MiTek Industries, Inc., based in Chesterfield, Missouri. With operations on six continents, MiTek is the world's leading supplier of engineered connector products, engineering services and design software for the building components industry, with recent expansion into the commercial, industrial and institutional building markets as well. Mr. Toombs is an owner alongside Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathoway Inc., which holds 90% of the company. He is also a director on the boards of the Auto Club Enterprises of California, St. Louis Trust Company and Duke Manufacturing Company. His nonprofit work includes serving on the boards of Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Luke's Hospital, Regional Business Council, St. Louis Science Center and the Magic House, where he is vice chairman. He is chairman of board of Junior Achievement.
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